Faculty are welcome to self-enroll in these CTL courses:
Modules for Teaching Online and Learning Brightspace from the Student Perspective.
Events Calendar
Rubrics 101 with Brightspace Demo
Microsoft TeamsAre your rubrics making grading more difficult than it should be? Or maybe you’re not using them at all? Rubrics are often touted as a time-saving approach to grading and responding, but not every rubric delivers on that promise. This workshop explores principles for making rubrics that work. We will also demonstrate integrating your rubrics into Brightspace.
Teaching in Higher Education
Microsoft TeamsIn this workshop we will help you reflect on your teaching and share current research on teaching practices such as Kuh’s High Impact Practices and Universal Design for Learning.
**This workshop is a requirement of the Graduate Teaching Program**
Improve Brightspace Course Accessibility with Ally
Microsoft TeamsAlly assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment and improving the overall student experience by assessing the level of accessibility of all instructor-uploaded content in Brightspace. Ally also provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to content accessibility. In addition, Ally generates alternate formats to Brightspace course documents to meet different learner needs, abilities, and preferences.
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
This workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We’ll demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics), different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace’s automated feedback tool – Intelligent Agents. We’ll also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please view “Brightspace Grades.”
Brightspace Assignments
Microsoft TeamsIn this session we’ll focus on:
Creating and previewing Assignment (individual and group)
Settings and connecting Assignments to Grades
Editing and reordering Assignments
Evaluating student submissions (including annotations and rubrics)
Using the Submission Log for tracking student work
Tips & Tricks for Thesis Writing: A Workshop for Graduate Students
302 Howe Memorial 302 Howe Memorial LibraryThis workshop will cover techniques for planning, organizing, and writing a long project. It will include tips on how to put your writing software to work for you as you assemble your text.
SoTL Series: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the IRB
RemoteThis session, led by Dr. Ted Marcy, IRB Chair of the Committee on Human Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, will provide information that you can use to adequately protect the rights of students as research participants, apply for the appropriate study designation from the IRB, and obtain IRB approval in a timely manner.
Responding to Final Writing Projects
Microsoft TeamsAre you worried you're wasting precious time responding to final papers at the end of the semester? When students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, it's important that you use your responding time effectively to the benefit of both you and your students. Join colleagues to talk about adjusting your response strategies for the particular context of the semester’s end.
Turnitin: Let’s Talk About Plagiarism Checkers
Microsoft TeamsCurious about tools for detecting plagiarism? Turnitin, a “similarity-detection” program, is integrated with Brightspace and can be utilized by instructors. WID has tested Turnitin’s capacities in order to inform decisions about the tool’s use. Join us to discuss WID’s observations regarding its function and limitations, and also to explore student motivation and writing integrity.
Brightspace: Customize Your Course with Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents
Microsoft TeamsDuring this workshop, we’ll explore how you can use Release Conditions to create a custom learning path for your course materials in Brightspace. We’ll introduce Intelligent Agents, which can automatically send emails to students who meet course criteria you specify. Finally, we’ll share examples of how you can use Release Conditions and Intelligent Agents together to further customize learning paths and enable timely student communication.
Save My Writing Assignment! Writing Assignment Revision Clinic
Microsoft TeamsDo you have an assignment you like but doesn’t quite work as well as you’d hoped? Let’s see if we can solve the problem and save your assignment together! During this assignment clinic, each participant will bring an assignment to workshop as a group using an appreciative and encouraging framework to think through what changes might help.
Brightspace Course Design with Equity in Mind
Microsoft TeamsThis one-hour workshop explores how faculty can use Brightspace to support an equitable learning environment. The workshop offers course design recommendations and connects Brightspace tools to these four equity-minded principles:
Fostering Student Sense of Belonging
Creating Course Structure
Supporting Student Executive Functioning
Building Relationships
Responding to Final Writing Projects
Microsoft TeamsAre you worried you're wasting precious time responding to final papers at the end of the semester? When students no longer have a next assignment to complete, and when their work will no longer be revised, it's important that you use your responding time effectively to the benefit of both you and your students. Join colleagues to talk about adjusting your response strategies for the particular context of the semester’s end.
Turnitin: Let’s Talk About Plagiarism Checkers
Microsoft TeamsCurious about tools for detecting plagiarism? Turnitin, a “similarity-detection” program, is integrated with Brightspace and can be utilized by instructors. WID has tested Turnitin’s capacities in order to inform decisions about the tool’s use. Join us to discuss WID’s observations regarding its function and limitations, and also to explore student motivation and writing integrity.
Brightspace Tools & Workflows for Grading & Feedback
Microsoft TeamsThis workshop provides an overview of strategies for grading student work and providing feedback. We’ll demonstrate tools to provide students feedback (inline grading, audio/video, rubrics), different grading workflows, including Quick Eval, and a snapshot of Brightspace’s automated feedback tool – Intelligent Agents. We’ll also show how students can find their grades and feedback. Please note, if you are interested in learning how to set up your Grade Book, please view “Brightspace Grades.”
But, I’m Not a Writing Teacher! – Teaching Writing in Your Discipline
Microsoft TeamsDo you find it tricky to teach both content and writing skills in the same course? This workshop explores principles for infusing writing into disciplinary courses. Starting with some basic principles for understanding the role of writing in participants’ disciplines, we’ll look at how disciplinary courses can support student writers by creating opportunities for connections and practice—all with an eye on sustainable workloads for students and teachers alike. The workshop will allow participants to apply core principles to their own teaching situation.
Puzzles and Podcasts: Overcoming Imposter Anxiety
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomCurious about teaching, and looking for a low-key way to connect with colleagues? Join us for puzzles and podcasts! Today's podcast will be “Overcoming Imposter Anxiety” an episode of Teaching in Higher Education that will focus on identifying imposter anxiety in ourselves and identifying tools that can help support a strong self image.
But, I’m Not a Writing Teacher! Teaching Writing in Your Discipline
Microsoft TeamsDo you find it tricky to teach both content and writing skills in the same course? This workshop explores principles for infusing writing into disciplinary courses. Starting with some basic principles for understanding the role of writing in participants’ disciplines, we’ll look at how disciplinary courses can support student writers by creating opportunities for connections and practice—all with an eye on sustainable workloads for students and teachers alike. The workshop will allow participants to apply core principles to their own teaching situation.
Destressing in Crafty Company
303 Howe, CTL ClassroomLate in the semester can be stressful, but the finish line is in sight! Remember to step away from grading and emails, even when the workload feels overwhelming. Come destress in good company!
Join us at the CTL, Howe Library, Room 303, for a moment of end-of-semester connection. Stop in for coffee, tea, or a snack; talk with colleagues as the semester winds down; make a bracelet or two that might lift your spirits.
Communicating with Students About AI/ChatGPT
Microsoft TeamsAre you wondering how you should approach AI use policies with your students? As artificial intelligence tools become more available, it’s vital that we engage students in open and clear dialogue about course policies and other potential impacts. In this session, we will explore syllabi statements that address AI use and limits in varying contexts and how our expectations connect with UVM’s Code of Academic Integrity. Participants will be provided with a range of sample policies, statements, and guiding prompts and will leave the session with a heightened sense of the values they wish to communicate to students.